Tootfinder

Just deployed a new Kitten¹ version 🎉
• Adds database backup and restore in your app’s Kitten settings page (/💕/settings)
• Upgrades version of JSDB from 4 to 5²
• You can emit and listen for events on the session object you get from `request.session` in your routes now.
¹ https://codeberg.org/kitten/app

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A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

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Google Maps emailed me with early access to its automated venue suggestions (branded ‘AI’).
So I asked for wheelchair accessible restaurants within a mile.
It offered four options with the nearest ~3 miles away, the fourth ~18 miles away. I know at least one of them is wrong about wheelchair access. Each is a regional / national chain.
While Google Maps supposedly tracks wheelchair access as reported by users, it seemed to go off user reviews. And it did so poor…

I realized I had not posted this here.
Short version, "AI for Genocide" article:
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
Further reporting:

‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal.

Die Pläne von Disney gegen das Account-Sharing werden immer konkreter! 🥴
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-9675849?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

Experimenteren met de app van Duckduckgo.
Standaard worden trackers bij de browsers niet geblokkeerd door DDG.
Vandaar dat ik bij Vivaldi maat even die bescherming wel inschakelde.
In 📷 1 (↕️) zie je het aantal trackers dat getriggerd werd toen ik bij Google.com inlogde.
Met het gesplitste scherm (📷 2 ↔️) kun je zelf zien dat het verschil tussen de ene website en de andere.
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Wissenschaft warnt nun schon vor der #ÖVP als Risiko für unsere Zukunft:
https://wien.orf.at/stories/3251677/
Noch schlimmer kann's ja kaum noch werden für diese ehemalige Partei der Mi…

I realized I had not posted this here.
Short version, "AI for Genocide" article:
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
Further reporting:

‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal.

Lipstick on a Pig: learning the most important lesson in design
https://ar.al/2022/08/17/lipstick-on-a-pig/
I wrote this a couple of years ago and I highly recommend that designers/developers read it. There’s also a talk I gave over a decade ago embedded in there that…

Lipstick on a Pig: learning the most important lesson in design
I just released a little tool called Lipstick on a Pig that helps keep the visual appearance of supported command-line applications in sync with the current light/dark mode setting (colour scheme) of your system in GNOME. But why is this tool even necessary to begin with? Let’s start at the beginning… Getting to GNOME you The GNOME display environment1, since version 42, implements support for light and dark appearance styles (aka colour schemes).

Windows 11 bekommt 2024 zwei große Updates
Windows 11 bekommt dieses Jahr voraussichtlich zwei große Updates, darunter die 24H2-Version. Fraglich ist, ob sich dahinter das "KI-Windows" verbirgt.
https://www.

Microsoft Powertoys 0.79.0: Feature-Feinschliff
Microsoft hat die Werkzeugsammlung Powertoys in Version 0.79.0 veröffentlicht. Im Kern gibt es Funktionsfeinschliff.
https://www.heise.d…